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Data is the new currency. Is your organization capitalizing on the full potential of data analytics? In this big data primer, you will learn about the 3 key challenges facing organizations today: managing overwhelming amounts of data, leveraging new complex tools/technologies, and developing the necessary skills and infrastructure. And since storage is where your organization's data lives, it’s a pivotal part of the infrastructure jigsaw puzzle. Thus with a “tuned for everything” storage solution that is purpose-built for modern analytics, you can confidently harness the power of your data to drive your enterprise forward.

Self-care is a complex concept, and there are many misconceptions about it. Some suggest it can be selfish, that it involves expensive, lavish things. Some even consider it to be a sign of weakness.
However, these misconceptions are the opposite of the truth. People who prioritize their personal health and well-being are better able to serve themselves and those around them. In other words, it’s a selfless act.

DevOps allows teams to effectively build, test, release, and respond to your software. But creating an agile, data-driven culture is easier said than done. Developer and devops teams struggle with lack of visibility into application monitoring tools and systems, accelerated time-to-market pressure, and increased complexity throughout the devops lifecycle process. As a Splunk customer, how are you using your machine data platform to adopt DevOps and optimize your application delivery pipeline?
Download your copy of Driving DevOps Success With Data to learn:
How machine data can optimize your application delivery
The four key capabilities DevOps teams must have to optimize speed and customer satisfaction
Sample metrics to measure your DevOps processes against

From protecting customer experience to preserving lines of revenue, IT operations teams face increasingly complex responsibilities and are responsible for preventing outages that could harm the organization. As a Splunk customer, your machine data platform empowers you to utilize machine learning to reduce MTTR. Discover how six companies utilize machine learning and AI to predict outages, protect business revenue and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
Download the e-book to learn how:
Micron Technology reduced number of IT incidents by more than 50%
Econocom provides better customer service by centralizing once-siloed analytics, improving SLA performance and significantly reducing the number of events
TransUnion combines machine data from multiple applications to create an end-to-end transaction flow

You won’t want to miss this report, “A New Era in Endpoint Protection: A SANS Product Review of CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection,” where SANS reveals the results of their evaluation of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform.
To conduct their evaluation, SANS security analysts ran Falcon through a wide range of increasingly complex attack scenarios. The exploits they used to evaluate CrowdStrike included phishing, credential dumping/lateral movement, unknown malware, PowerShell attacks and more. The report shows that CrowdStrike Falcon was able to detect and prevent every attack to which SANS subjected it.
Read this SANS report to learn:
• Details on Falcon’s efficacy in preventing a wide range of attacks: Ransomware, lateral movement, PowerShell-based, and more
• The power of the CrowdStrike Threat Graph™ and the benefits of its crowdsourced intelligence model
• How CrowdStrike’s ability to capture detailed forensic information on attempted and thwarted attacks, allows you to prevent

Learn how fileless techniques work and why they present such a complex challenge.
The arms race between cybersecurity vendors and determined adversaries has never been more heated. As soon as a new security tool is released, threat actors strive to develop a way around it. One advanced threat technique that is experiencing success is the use of fileless attacks, where no executable file is written to disk.
The 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 51 percent of cyberattacks are malware-free, so there’s no indication that these attacks will be subsiding anytime soon. Read this white paper to get the important information you need to successfully defend your company against stealthy fileless attacks.
Download this white paper to learn:
• The detailed anatomy of a fileless intrusion, including the initial compromise, gaining command and control, escalating privileges and establishing persistence
• How fileless attacks exploit trusted systems — the types of processe

Companies are facing massive cyber security challenges – many of which are rooted in the endpoint. In fact, according to IDC, 70% of successful breaches begin at the endpoint. If you are a McAfee customer, and still have breaches in your endpoint security, then something isn’t working. Perhaps you’re struggling to prevent advanced attacks, or your security team may be burdened by maintaining overly complex policies. You and your end users may even be facing performance issues.
If you are experiencing any of these challenges, then your endpoint security products may actually be creating more problems than they solve. Ask yourself these questions for a cybersecurity reality check.

Most organizations are in the midst of some form of digital transformation (DX),
transforming how they bring products and services to the market—and ultimately
deliver value to their customers. But DX initiatives also bring complexity for the
network operations team. With business-critical services distributed across
multiple clouds, this leads to potential performance issues, especially at
branch locations.
Given these realities, it is no wonder that software-defined wide-area network
(SD-WAN) technology is rapidly going mainstream. Unfortunately, SD-WAN is an
example of the paradox of DX: transformative technology can potentially move the
business to the next level, but the expanded attack surface it creates can expose
the organization to significant risk. That is why an SD-WAN deployment, like every
other DX effort, should be accompanied by a security transformation (SX) that
rethinks outdated principles, broadens protection beyond the data center, and
integrates the security archit

Cloud services are a pillar of a digital transformation,
but they have also become a thorn in the side of many
security architects. As data and applications that were
once behind the enterprise firewall began roaming
free—on smartphones, between Internet-of-Things
(IoT) devices, and in the cloud—the threat landscape
expanded rapidly. Security architects scrambled to adjust
their technologies, policies, and procedures. But just
when they thought they had a handle on securing their
cloud-connected enterprises, new business imperatives
indicated that one cloud wasn’t enough.
Modern enterprises operate in a multi-cloud world,
where the threat landscape has reached a new level of
complexity. Security teams are juggling a hodgepodge
of policies, threat reports, and management tools. When
each cloud operates in its own silo, the security architect
has even more difficulty supporting the CISO or CIO with a
coherent, defensible security posture.

Hardware technology doesn’t last forever. It has a lifecycle, a measurable beginning and end to its productivity and value. IT is tasked with optimizing the PC lifecycle while driving strategic breakthroughs for their organization. However, the high cost and complexity of PC management leaves IT little time for innovation.
We offer flexible financing options that help assure IT will always have everything they need, when they need it, to keep end users engaged and productive. Learn more about Dell solutions powered by Intel®.

In today’s competitive world, using new technology to set your business apart can make the difference between getting ahead or falling behind. But staying in control of the growing complexity is tough. Enterprise Architecture (EA), IT Service Management (ITSM) and Security teams need enriched technology asset data and accurate analytics so they can keep the enterprise running like a well-oiled machine.
Join us to hear R “Ray” Wang, Principal Analyst and Founder of Constellation Research, and Alan Lopez, Senior Director of Global Product Marketing from Flexera, discuss use cases where asset data and analytics are becoming business-critical.

Today’s IT teams spend far too much time struggling against increasing system complexity and tools failing to make monitoring easier and more reliable. To combat these challenges, both admins and site reliability engineers need a clear view of infrastructure performance and availability.
Splunk® Insights for Infrastructure (SII) is an analytics-driven monitoring solution that provides the seamless experience organizations need for infrastructure monitoring on the AWS cloud.
Download this product brief and discover how SII offers:
• An easy install within minutes—available as a free download
• Detailed investigations through granular metrics
• Seamless monitoring and troubleshooting

Cloud migration can be fraught with inevitable speed bumps. IT management must keep pace while infrastructures grow more complex, and security teams must safeguard their organization’s posture even as they relinquish control over some key technology—all while business teams must continue to predict and manage costs along the way.
There are ways to navigate this process more effectively. Register for your complimentary copy of the ebook How to Get Your Cloud Migration Strategy Right. You’ll learn how to make your cloud migration journey successful, including:
• How to make the transition to the cloud as seamless as possible
• Why you need full visibility into your infrastructure before, during, and after migration
• How IT, security, and operations teams can maximize the ROI from moving to the cloud

Today’s IT teams spend far too much time struggling against increasing system complexity and tools failing to make monitoring easier and more reliable. To combat these challenges, both admins and site reliability engineers need a clear view of infrastructure performance and availability.
Splunk® Insights for Infrastructure (SII) is an analytics-driven monitoring solution that provides the seamless experience organizations need for infrastructure monitoring on the AWS cloud.
Download this product brief and discover how SII offers:
• An easy install within minutes—available as a free download
• Detailed investigations through granular metrics
• Seamless monitoring and troubleshooting

"Cloud migration can be fraught with inevitable speed bumps. IT management must keep pace while infrastructures grow more complex, and security teams must safeguard their organization’s posture even as they relinquish control over some key technology—all while business teams must continue to predict and manage costs along the way.
There are ways to navigate this process more effectively. Register for your complimentary copy of the ebook How to Get Your Cloud Migration Strategy Right. You’ll learn how to make your cloud migration journey successful, including:
• How to make the transition to the cloud as seamless as possible
• Why you need full visibility into your infrastructure before, during, and after migration
• How IT, security, and operations teams can maximize the ROI from moving to the cloud"

As organizations are moving to AWS to gain the operational
efficiencies of the cloud, they’re realizing the
importance of a well-architected framework. This
framework, which consists of twelve pillars, is wellintended,
secure, and compliant, but is not exactly
easy to achieve.
Our clients frequently tell us that two pillars in particular--Security
and Cost Optimization--are the most
difficult to get right. This is partially because while
advanced tooling is required to manage cloud
complexities and compliance, selecting, deploying,
and operating these tools is costly and burdensome.
Without optimizing your environment for these two
pillars, you are preventing your organization from
scaling up. This has resulted in many businesses that
are restricted to a minimal use of AWS, negating any
benefit of having adopted the cloud in the first place.
AHEAD uses the AWS Well-Architected Framework,
which will walk you through common missteps and
how to get it right.

Delivering a hit PC game isn’t easy. You’ve got to worry about frictions like slow downloads, unstable connections, and security flaws — any of which can cause players to abandon for good and doom your game to failure. Akamai’s Quick Start Guide: Global Game Launch, PC Edition can take some of the complexity— and anxiety— out of your next game launch. You’ll learn how Akamai can help you succeed at each of the four key steps of game release — Develop, Promote, Deliver, and Play — so you can keep your players engaged with a seamless, secure game experience.

Amazon Redshift Spectrum—a single service that can be used in conjunction with other Amazon services and products, as well as external tools—is revolutionizing the way data is stored and queried, allowing for more complex analyses and better decision making.
Spectrum allows users to query very large datasets on S3 without having to load them into Amazon Redshift. This helps address the Scalability Dilemma—with Spectrum, data storage can keep growing on S3 and still be processed. By utilizing its own compute power and memory, Spectrum handles the hard work that would
normally be done by Amazon Redshift. With this service, users can now scale to accommodate larger amounts of data than the cluster would have been capable of processing with its own resources.
This e-book aims to provide you with expert tips on how to
use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to increase performance
and potentially reduce the cost of your queries.

In this tech brief, learn how Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is lowering costs and increasing speed for backup and recovery applications. Wasabi is transforming cloud storage with a radical combination of speed, affordability and security. It offers backup and recovery platforms an extremely cost-effective solution that at the same time improves performance. Eliminating the complex tiers and pricing structures you find with traditional cloud storage options, Wasabi is 80% less than and 6x faster than Amazon S3 and built to be simple and flexible. It works with any Amazon S3 backup and recovery platform or utility. Cloud storage has become a compelling alternative to physical media or secondary data centers for data protection and Wasabi takes it to the next level. Download the Wasabi tech brief to learn more.